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Comment: Ideological basis of Chinese foreign policy in the post Mao period.

  • UPSC 1993
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Under Mao Zedong, ideology was revolutionary. China backed insurgencies, preached "people's war" and, in the Three Worlds theory (1974), cast itself as leader of the oppressed. After 1978 ideology did not disappear; it changed its function. Ideology no longer drives Chinese foreign policy towards world revolution. It now legitimates the party-state through development and nationalism,…

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  • Deng Xiaoping: pragmatism as ideology (1978–92)
  • Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao: reassurance
  • Xi Jinping: ideology returns as a claim on order
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  • The Indian experience
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